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The Arts Research Center is a think tank for the arts. It acts as a hub and a meeting place, a space for reflection where artists, scholars, curators, and civic arts leaders from a variety of disciplines can gather and learn from one another.
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Highlights for 2024/2025
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Spotlights from Our Archive
"The struggle to ensure that art work is recognized as real work and compensated accordingly is an essential one, and it continues through the efforts of art collectives and organizations, the actions of artists, and countless individual decisions to accept or reject engrossing but unpaid jobs."
— Elyse Mallouk, “On Laboring for Love”, from ARC's Valuing Labor in the Arts: A Gathering
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